Vibe
A sound awareness wearable for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, currently in development.
Designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing users from day one, Vibe translates important environmental sounds into visual and haptic cues. The focus is simple: make sound awareness more accessible in everyday life.
Accessibility and affordability are part of the product brief from the beginning.
Vibe · sound to haptic
How Vibe turns sound into something you can feel.
Pick a sound. Vibe detects it and responds with a visual cue and a pattern you can feel — a different rhythm for each one, so you can recognise what happened without relying on hearing alone.
Incoming sound
Visual cue
Alert
Siren
Possible direction
Ahead
Haptic pattern
Siren: Three long pulses, evenly spaced — the most urgent pattern in the set.